A REVIEW OF THE NEIL YOUNG FILM PARADOX Last night – well 3am this morning actually – I was feeling a bit despondent, so I was flicking through YouTube looking for music to lift my mood … I went through the usuals, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and of course His Royal Bobness. Then I rekindled… Continue reading Let’s Stop Knockin’ the Free World …Forever (Neil) Young!

For almost two decades I featured new music from aspiring artists on my radio shows, Leigh G Banks’s The Trip and Leigh G Banks’s The Dinner Party. Last year I changed tack and now have a cable TV show and make documentaries, so radio has taken a back seat. For now. Meantime, performers are still… Continue reading Masked and anonymous … the secret life of The Foole

Has lock-down really got you feeling blue? How do you think about life AND yourself after a year of uncertainty, health threats, financial worries, loneliness, not seeing family and friends … And does it show in your body, mind and spirit? Well, we’ve just come across a website that addresses all these issues – and… Continue reading Single-minded! Make a date with yourself to shake off break-up blues and lock-down dilemmas

Ladies! join the Gentlemen’s Rant. What did actually happen at the Sarah Everard vigil and was the debacle disrespectful to Sarah’s memory? Was it reasonable to call for a 6p.m. curfew for men? #SarahEverard #mothersday #equality #womensrights amazon #mensrights

Now a friend of Sarah Edwards has spoken out about the disrespect in the UK towards Sarah’s death and her family. Her friend said (see full report in link below) : “Her abduction and murder is not, in my opinion, a symptom of a sexist, dangerous society. When something awful like this happens there is… Continue reading Sophie hits back at views on men in awful circus surrounding Sarah Everard’s murder

Slovakia’s health chief Marek Krajčí has resigned for ordering Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. He had been coming under pressure from the country’s four-party ruling coalition. Slovakia followed Hungary in buying Sputnik V which doesn’t have EU authorisation. “Two coalition parties made my resignation a condition for them to stay in the coalition. In such… Continue reading Slovak health boss out as ‘Sputnik’ spins overhead, worming drug arrives and we sit in a virtual waiting room for jabs

Piers Morgan has left packed in Good Morning Britain over the Meghan Markle debacle. A statement from ITV said: “Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain. ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.” The decision after Ofcom said it was investigating… Continue reading Markle mangle as Piers storms off – and is gone!

This photograph shows it’s all over. No fighting back, it’s the time of the end. Hough Hall, Moston, is going going gone. Its fate was sealed at the end of last year when it was sold at auction for a measly £165,000. And very soon 500 years of the history our little suburb three miles… Continue reading Hough Hall is finally going, going gone. And we should be angry

Nurses are heroic, but should they be threatening to go on strike at this time in our recovery from Covid? And lots more to have a shout about, the best opinion show on TV today. Take a look, it’s funny, it’s shocking and above all it’s entertaining. A BIT OF BACKGROUND: Rodney Hearth is the… Continue reading Only Fools and Horses…but who is actually talking horse sense?

Manchester writer, Dorrie Bridge asks a question that matters for our elderly sacrificial lambs. One of today’s headlines in the press is that a fair percentage of the over 80s, having had one dose of the vaccine – or two in some cases – have been breaking the lock-down. In the main it seems to… Continue reading Did over 80s think the vaccine had burst their bubble – and now they are mixing for trouble?